Comments on: Report: Mariners likely to trade Nick Franklin or Brad Miller by Opening Dayhttp://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/02/20/report-mariners-likely-to-trade-nick-franklin-or-brad-miller-by-opening-day/
Baseball. Baseball. And then a bit more baseball.Tue, 03 Mar 2015 23:45:29 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/By: yahmulehttp://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/02/20/report-mariners-likely-to-trade-nick-franklin-or-brad-miller-by-opening-day/comment-page-1/#comment-659068
Sat, 22 Feb 2014 17:00:08 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=511914#comment-659068Watch them for the next 35 years. That’s how long Seattle went between championships. You have a Jack Sikma poster, right?
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Sat, 22 Feb 2014 16:58:07 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=511914#comment-659065If they could cash Franklin in for Arcia, that deal would have happened already.
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Fri, 21 Feb 2014 21:29:30 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=511914#comment-658722Probably should while he still has trade value. Next year he’ll be coming off a 240/16/70 season. Isn’t that what happens to everybody they bring in? This is one snake-bit franchise.
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Fri, 21 Feb 2014 16:12:01 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=511914#comment-658509It’s the M’s. They’ll trade Franklin for either a washed up reliever or a 6’4″ “power hitter” that’s slow and injury prone. And Franklin will go on to become a perennial All Star with another team. Oh, well, at least we’ll have endless reruns of the SB to watch. Go ‘Hawks!!!!
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Fri, 21 Feb 2014 15:05:14 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=511914#comment-658462It doesn’t matter what they do, if they don’t get help for Felix and Iwakuma they won’t compete!
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Fri, 21 Feb 2014 13:39:03 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=511914#comment-658410Well, yeah, if such a deal was available, but it isn’t. Franklin isn’t a SS. No one thinks he can play SS. The Cardinals don’t need a 2B, and even if Bourjos wins the starting CF job, Jay is a far more useful bench player to the Cardinals right now than Franklin would be.
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Fri, 21 Feb 2014 11:58:59 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=511914#comment-658389St. Louis has no real need for Franklin though, but that would be a standard-fare savvy trade by Mozeliak.

Tough to see how Jack Z can get a decent ML-ready player in return for Franklin. Seems plausible that the Mariners could get Oswaldo Arcia from Minnesota, being that the Twins have no ML-ready shortstop, though they have a couple prospects in the pipeline. That would be unlike Z though.

Or perhaps Jose Tabata from Pittsburgh, though that also is problematic since the Pirates leaned heavily on defense last season and Franklin isn’t very good defensively at short.

They could probably get Duda or Davis from the Mets, but Seattle’s already overloaded with subpar 1B/DH guys.

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Fri, 21 Feb 2014 11:13:41 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=511914#comment-658387They should trade Franklin for Jon Jay straight up, but knowing Jack Z he will trade for a couple no name prospects like he did with Fister.
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Fri, 21 Feb 2014 07:36:08 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=511914#comment-658377Maybe we could trade Robinson Cano? Probably hafta eat most of the $$$ tho……. /sarcasm

Thank God for the success the Seahawks are having. Makes being a Mariner fan a little more bearable.

Used to be a Jack Z believer. The more I see of him in action, though, now not so much.